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Techdirt covers a new paper published by the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine regarding the general access that the FBI and DOJ want to encrypted communications.
Another paper has been released, adding to the current encryption discussion. The FBI and DOJ want access to the contents of locked devices. They call encryption that can be bypassed by law enforcement "responsible encryption." It isn't. A recent paper by cryptograpghy expert Riana Pfefferkorn explained in detail how irresponsible these suggestions for broken or weakened encryption are.
This new paper [PDF] was put together by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. (h/t Lawfare) It covers a lot of ground others have and rehashes the history of encryption, along with many of the pro/con arguments. That said, it's still worth reading. It raises some good questions and spends a great deal of time discussing the multitude of options law enforcement has available, but which are ignored by FBI officials when discussing the backdoors/key escrow/weakened encryption they'd rather have.
The paper's suggestions have not been rigorously investigated by those with domain expertise, yet.
Source : Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement
(Score: 4, Interesting) by requerdanos on Sunday February 25 2018, @12:51AM (3 children)
A few ways forward? A long walk on a short pier, for example. Wear good, heavy shoes.
If "law enforcement" or anyone else is engaged in a battle against me to read what I have encrypted, then they are the bad guys. Amendment 4.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Sunday February 25 2018, @02:08AM (1 child)
How about LEOs do some, you know, actual police work instaad of trampling on the 4th and 5th Amendments with Stingrays, orders to decrypt data, searching phones without warrants, surreptitious planting of GPS devices, etc., etc., etc.
LE was able to bring down most of La Cosa Nostra without trampling all over the bill of rights. Yes, it took them a long time and they had to put actual work and resources into it. But that's kind of the point.
Most sane, rational people don't want killers, rapists and other scumbags to walk free, but that's not a reason to violate *anyone's* civil rights.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @09:40AM
Which is why the priority should be that the cops should get better and stop being killers, rapists and scumbags that walk free after violating peoples civil rights.
If the cops start doing their jobs properly then it starts making more sense for people to cooperate with the police and maybe even help them solve cases.
But till then the cops are in the similar category as organized crime, except they're taxpayer funded and maybe even more dangerous. And where possible you shouldn't talk to them and let your lawyer talk to them.
Actually I suspect the Yakuza are even more disciplined than the US cops: https://japantoday.com/category/features/opinions/my-very-brief-fight-with-a-yakuza [japantoday.com]
Maybe that Yakuza guy realized that he might lose his pinkie if he messed with a gaijin "civilian". Whereas a US cop could just yell "Stop Resisting" and clobber/kill whoever he wants and at most get transferred to a different PD.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday February 26 2018, @09:06AM
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